sleeplessly

AllAdverb

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For the rest, the Association thought the thoughts, spoke the words, and made the moves of Gibbon Wakefield.Yet though he pervaded it sleeplessly, its life was but an episode in his career.…Cited from The Long White Cloud, by William Pember Reeves

Nothing could the poor little heart reply but strain to his bosom and sleeplessly pray in his arms all the night.Cited from Ordeal Richard Feverel by G. Meredith, v5

But it was hard to condense all he felt into a brief note.For a long time he thought in vain, then one night, as he tossed sleeplessly on his bed of rocks, he came to a decision.…Cited from Punch, Vol. 146, January 7, 1914, Ed. by Sir Owen Seaman

The government officer had listened with a cipher telegram in his pocket informing him of Lee's repulse.For the last twenty-four hours Merwyn had watched almost sleeplessly for the outburst to take place.That strong, confident face indicated no fears that it would ever take place.…Cited from An Original Belle, by E. P. Roe

I folded up the letter carefully: it was almost as precious as a letter from Margaret herself.That night I passed sleeplessly, revolving in my mind every possible course that I could take at the interview of the morrow.It would be a difficult and a delicate business.…Cited from Basil, by Wilkie Collins

In spite of the brave front and cheerful aspect that Cabot maintained before his helpless comrade, he often broke down when off by himself, vainly straining his eyes from the summit of some ice hummock for any hopeful sign, and acknowledged that their situation was indeed desperate.That first night, spent sleeplessly and in momentary expectation that the ice beneath them would break, was the worst.After that they dreaded more than anything the fate that would overtake them with the disappearance of their slender stock of provisions.…Cited from Under the Great Bear, by Kirk Munroe

She was for a moment anxious, because she wanted him to say the word, or some equivalent.If it was not said, she was dependent upon his charity later, and would cry sleeplessly at night for want of sureness of him.…Cited from Nocturne, by Frank Swinnerton

And yet, some said to themselves, would a murderer have stood and faced them all as he had done?The long night passed anxiously and sleeplessly for most of the inhabitants of Bolsover.The event of the day had awed them into something like a common feeling.…Cited from A Dog with a Bad Name, by Talbot Baines Reed

His main business was that of surveyor, for his knowledge of the country, and his ability to travel through it, in spite of the danger from Indians, created much demand for his services among people who wished to lay off tracts of wild land for their own future use.But whatever he did, and wherever he went, he had to be sleeplessly on the lookout for his Indian foes.When he and his fellows tilled the stump-dotted fields of corn, one or more of the party were always on guard, with weapon at the ready, for fear of lurking savages.…Cited from Hero Tales From American History, Lodge/Roosevelt

But how did it pass in the viscount's cell?Sleeplessly, anxiously, wretchedly, until long after midnight, when he fell asleep.He was awakened by a sound of sawing, dragging, and hammering, that seemed to be in the prison yard beneath his windows.…Cited from Self-Raised, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

And Rafael tossed sleeplessly in his bed, rehearsing in the darkness the story he had been told.He felt dwarfed, annihilated, by the grandeur of the men who had preceded him in their adoration of that woman.…Cited from The Torrent (Entre Naranjos), by Vicente Blasco Ibanez

He could have cried out in his grief, as he lay all night twisting and turning in his bed, sleeplessly, a prey to his remorse.Cited from Jean-Christophe, Vol. I, by Romain Rolland

Yudhishthira, the son of Dharma, having prevailed over Bhishma and Drona, did not fear anybody else so much as the bowman Karna.Indeed, thinking of the mighty car-warrior Karna, he passeth his nights sleeplessly from fear.How, then, could Bhima encounter that Suta's son in battle?…Cited from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2

Nevertheless, I bear no grudge against the sine and the cosine, which I continue to hold in high esteem.They cost me many a pallid hour at one time, but they always afforded me some first rate entertainment: they still do so, when my head lies tossing sleeplessly on its pillow.Meanwhile, Ajaccio received the visit of a famous Avignon botanist, Requien by name, who, with a box crammed with paper under his arm, had long been botanizing all over Corsica, pressing and drying specimens and distributing them to his friends.…Cited from The Life of the Fly, by J. Henri Fabre

Ansari, is the next big thing in the underworld, the drug demon.He is who the Narcotics Control Bureau is hunting for sleeplessly.A planned, analyzed and strong & evolved sense of business move makes it difficult for anyone to gather evidence against this drug lord.…

The night hours wore on to the soft wail of the breeze and the wild notes of far-off trailing coyotes.Hare, watching sleeplessly, saw one of the prone figures stir.The man raised himself very cautiously; he glanced at his companions, and looked long at Holderness, who lay squarely in the dimming light.…Cited from Heritage of the Desert, by Zane Grey

A chance yet remained, but she could no longer hope.When she reached the landing-place, faint and penniless, one of the boatmen took her to his home, and there she sat sleeplessly awaiting the dawn of the day of trial.When she entered the witness-box next day, the whole court reeled before her, save two figures only -- that of the judge and that of the prisoner.…Cited from The World's Greatest Books, Vol IV, Ed. by Arthur Mee & J.A. Hammerton

He was not permitted to take the hand of Clara in his, and utter the words that bound him to her forever, without a visit from the one whose heart he had broken years before.She came to him in the dark and silent midnight, as he tossed sleeplessly upon his bed, and stood and looked at him with her pale face and despairing eyes, until he was driven almost to madness.She was with him when the light of morning dawned; she moved by his side as he went forth to meet and claim his betrothed; and was near him, invisible to all eyes but his own, when he stood at the altar ready to give utterance to the solemn words that bound him to his bride.…Cited from Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures, by Arthur

The father of the unhappy girl was of the same mixed mind as he rode sleeplessly back to New York in his berth, and heard the noises of slumber all round him.From time to time he groaned softly, and turned from one cheek to the other.…Cited from Entire PG Edition of William Dean Howells

With the greening of the moon zu Pfeiffer had retired.As he had lain sleeplessly watching the pallor of the dawn he had savagely corroborated the decision.Now the roar of the deluge appeared to him in the form of an abettor to his plan.…Cited from Witch-Doctors, by Charles Beadle